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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
3) Clemency
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
4) Apprentice
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While working as a correctional officer Aiman is offered the job as apprentice to the executioner, but the executioner is the man who killed his father.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the murder of her sister, Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
7) Billy Budd
Author
Pub. Date
1924
Physical Desc
Also available online from Project Gutenberg.
Description
The classic story in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
483 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 840
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
544.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropolis in the heart of China's stunning Sichuan Province. He had been obsessed...
12) I want to live!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
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Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the Americanleader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
435 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found dead, marked by the same tattoo, the mounting hysteria...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
536 pages ; 18 cm
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Living with her father in the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII, Moss is disgusted and revolted by both her father's job (executioner) and hers (collecting the freshly severed heads) and wants desperately to escape and find out more about herorigins.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 363 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
38 Nooses details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
834 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
20) Nefarious
Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
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